Several documentaries have been made on Overtoun house and bridge. (Image source: Instagram/Overtoun Bridge)

Whatever the force is that has caused dogs to jump, it does not just affect animals; in 1994, Kevin Moy threw his two-week-old son off the bridge and then tried committing suicide by jumping off himself. However, he was pulled back by his wife and the bystanders, before the police arrested him. Unfortunately, the child could not survive the fall.

Dogs have continued to leap from the bridge, and this strange phenomenon has gone unexplained since as early as the 1950s. Experts believe that dogs might be attracted by the animals hiding under the bridge, causing them to leap.

Overtoun Bridge in Scotland is famous for the amount of suicides since the 1950s, Not human suicides.. 600+ Dogs have leapt to their deaths pic.twitter.com/STG6j9jE5E

Dr. David Sand of Animal Behavioral Clinic explains that it is impossible for dogs to attempt suicide. While dogs do sometimes stop eating and starve themselves to death, that is attributed to depression and not an active attempt at suicide. He elaborates that there could be other factors motivating dogs to carry out such a misadventure, one being mink urine.

The mystery behind the bridge has attracted worldwide attention and supernatural theories have been proposed so far, some even calling it the ‘Thin Place’ where afterlife and physical world meet.

There is an old Scottish myth of a “Thin Place” where the afterlife and the physical world meet; Overtoun Bridge is said to be one of these places. Over the years, dogs have been known to spontaneously leap to their death from the bridge. pic.twitter.com/7blImV0qwX